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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1930
Page
26
Chauncey Dover School District and 11 Athens County districts will vote November 4 on continuing a three mill levy above the fifteen mill limit to qualify for state equalization aid. The levy already exists but must be reaffirmed to keep eligibility and funding for longer school terms.
The Kiwanis Club hosts a Halloween celebration on Main Street Athens with a 6 PM street closure and a 7:30 PM parade starting at Flatiron Square. The Ohio University Band will perform at the Courthouse, followed by prize distributions for costumes across multiple age groups and a group prize for organized entries. Local officials back the event to ensure crowd safety and smooth processions.
The U S Civil Service Commission announces openings for federal positions including senior glass blower in the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils Washington with a 2000 year salary. Examinations for a marketing specialist in the Bureau of Agriculture Economics in Washington or field. Two Interstate Commerce Commission accountant jobs offer 2600 and 2300 respectively. Information from Athens post office secretary of the Civil Service Board of Examiners.
An advertisement touts a soothing healing ointment that ends itching and burning of the skin. It claims relief for almost any itchy surface and invites readers to write Resing, Dept. 54, to receive a free sample by mail.
A string of visits spans Athens Chauncey The Plains Gallipolis and Wellston with Mr and Mrs Dugan Shafer and daughter Phyllis Ann of Athens visiting Lower Plains and family friends including the Mantzs Seevers Fiske and Brown households also hosting and traveling officials and nurses among the group.
A large crowd attended the Halloween celebration at Bail ey Run School Building on Thursday evening. Teacher Kenneth Giuliian oversaw skits recitations and songs by pupils, plus an animal show and cake walk won by Miss Emma Guy. Cake baked by Mrs. Ralph Brown Chauncey. String music by John Kasler and Virgil Manning.
Chauncey school teachers led by Supt. Wesley Walburn travel to Marietta and Portsmouth for teachers' meetings. Included are Mrs. Christine Brown, Mrs. Fannie King, Miss Ruth Fiske, Miss Edith Wilson, Miss Isabel Smart, Miss Frances Howard, and others.
The Rev. Guss Graham of Chauncey will preach at Zion Free Will Baptist Church in Lower Plains on Sunday morning at 10 30 and evening at 7. The Buchtel Church choir will provide special music during the services.
The Plains minister lL H Stanley of the Church of the Nazarene will deliver a prohibition sermon during the morning service. Sunday school starts at 9 30 with Mrs Carrie Channell serving as superintendent.
Mrs. Russell McHarg of Chauncey hosted a dinner at her Lower Plains home on Thursday evening in honor of her mother and sister Mrs. W F E Helrich and Marie Helrich of Athens and Mrs. Ella Walden of Columbus.
Chauncey October 31 The Mill Field Parent Teacher Association will hold a meeting Monday evening in the West Side Building. Pupils from the grades will present a program.
An office grouch becomes a happier, energetic man after his doctor links his irritability and fatigue to constipation and prescribes Kellogg's ALLBRAN. The cereal, praised for improved texture and taste, is suggested as a daily aid with milk fruit or honey, sold in red and green packaging by Kellogg in Battle Creek.
Mrs. Charles H. Tuttle, wife of the Republican gubernatorial nominee, is pictured in a recent portrait and active in her husband’s campaign as he seeks election to become New York’s next governor.
Chauncey Ohio October 31 pupils in masquerade costumes paraded along Converse Street after class at the primary building where teachers Miss Simms Miss Porter Mrs Close and Mrs Bridgewater presided. Prizes were awarded for the most comic prettiest and most unique costumes.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd narrates polar explorations November 8 as part of the Ohio University Music Lecture Course in Athens. Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Ossip Gabrilowitsch performs November 11, with Lowell Thomas and Lawrence Tibbett prominent speakers and artists scheduled through February 3.
RECORDS PERFECT CHAUNCEY Oct 31 Miss Donna Sanders Beaumont School reports October pupils neither absent nor tardy. First Grade Glennis Bowles Dale Tittle. Second Inez Bricker Lovelyn Tittle. Third Lorraine Bricker Carl Hart. Fifth Delbert Adams Mary Ward. Sixth Glen Phelps Margie Smith Martha Smith Everett Ward.
Lowell Thomas, native of Woodington, Ohio, served under President Wilson in World War I to study Allied campaigns. He explored the Mari in 1923, toured with the Prince of Wales, logged 25 000 miles across 21 Eastern Hemisphere countries, and worked with T. E. Lawrence known as the uncrowned king of Arabia. He was born in 1892.
Athens Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will be in charge of ushering at the homecoming game. The groups will greet attendees and guide spectators to seats.
Report mentions at Ohio University during the Ohio and Cincinnati game on Saturday afternoon, professors C D Gis and Jack Rhoads discussed visiting seating arrangements and requested to add forms.
An Unidentified person fired at the royal train carrying King Borisana VI and Princess Giovanna of Italy as it passed through Sofia Bulgaria. The attack occurred as the train neared the capital and no immediate details on casualties or motive were released.
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